German 76th Infantry Division

The German 76th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the German Wehrmacht that was active from 26 August 1939 to 1945 during World War II. The division had an average strength of 15,000 troops, and the division took part in the war with the Soviet Union, fighting at the Battle of Kiev in 1941 and the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, where it encircled and destroyed by the Red Army. The division was later reconstituted, and it suffered heavy losses in the Jassy-Kishinev Offensive of 1944, and the division was forced to surrender to the Soviets at Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia at the end of the war in May 1945.